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[Anonymous No.14894354]

The greatest book ever written.

[Anonymous No.14894380]

>>14894354
based, and also redpilled as well.
what's your favourite scene anon?

[Anonymous No.14894398]

>>14894380
when the ship sinks in the storm and Maldoror shoots the survivors on top of the cliff and fucks a shark.

[Anonymous No.14894406]

>>14894398
sounds cringe

[Anonymous No.14894408]

>>14894398
based. for me, its when he grabs a little girl by the feet and spins in circles and smashes her on a wall, splattering blood everywhere. or the part where he describes the vegetation growing on his body from sitting for centuries. or even the sentient celestial pubic hair

[Anonymous No.14894411]

Is it just me or does Lautreamont seem to take a backseat to other French pervs like Sade, Bataille, and Genet? I don't see him come up nearly as much in conversations.

[Anonymous No.14894413]

>>14894380
clearly when his bulldog rapes the girl

[Anonymous No.14894421]

>>14894408
one part that always stuck with me was the part near the beginning where he describes raping and killing a boy, and muses about the boys lips and his being conjoined and they float in eternity.
started sweating from that.

[Anonymous No.14894437]

>>14894411
Probably because Lautreamont was only discovered due to those people. Breton popularised Les Chants by donning it as the beau ideal proto-surrealist work then those who broke off from surrealism like Bataille took it with them

[Anonymous No.14894447]

>>14894354
It's good but its written in that same Joyce-like way. Yes, it is amazing and applies various symbolistic images but it makes its self dry and a bit tough to swallow. His real master work is Poésies just like Rimbaud's masterpiece is Illuminations rather than A season in Hell.

[Anonymous No.14894464]

>>14894447
cringe and contrarian, although Poesies is amazing it carries itself on Maldoror.
The point is to contrast the evil with good.

[Anonymous No.14894784]

>>14894354
I liked it, but I'm not sure what my favorite scene would be, if pressed to name one not already mentioned, I might put forward the bits with god, which I thought were very nice, but all of it was enjoyable and I hope to reread it soon.

[Anonymous No.14894917]

Would any anons care to discuss the book with me? I took good notes on my first read. Some thoughts:

-The repeated imagery of shorelines represents the author's time in Montevideo, while city scenes in general represent his time in Paris, most obviously with street names and places in and around the latin quarter toward the end.

-One of the more impressive things about the book's vocabulary is the young author's deep knowledge of many types of animals, much more difficult to come by in a 19th century backwater, or even in then-Paris if you didn't know where to go. I think that if Ducasse had lived, he would have made a fine zoologist, had he chosen that path. He knew what tardigrades were.

-I read the god stuff in book 3 as having possibly informed the meme-film Begotten's opening scene, although this may be headcanon. The relevant question, then, is: did the director read Maldoror prior to production?

-and how about the Poesies (sic)? Not knowing French lit, I didn't get much out of it. But he seems to alternate back and forth between praising and shitting on the same authors during his planned complementary "work on the good".

[Anonymous No.14895019]

>>14894917
about that second point, he took a good amount of his info from other books, sometimes just copypasting his sources. there is a paper about it, in french.

[Anonymous No.14895401]

>>14895019

Neat! Anyone else?

[Anonymous No.14895416]

Other items:

-About a third of the way through, there is language about "Lohengrin", a Wagnerian character, but then there's an incantation of "Leman! Lombano! Holzer!" I'd appreciate any insight on these characters, cursory searches didn't turn anything up for me last I checked.